Emanuel Cleaver

Emanuel Cleaver (26 October 1944-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MO 5) from 3 January 2005, succeeding Karen McCarthy.

Biography
Emanuel Cleaver was born in Waxahachie, Texas in 1944, and he founded a branch of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Kansas City, Missouri during the Civil Rights movement. He served as a Methodist pastor from 1972 to 2009, and he served as a Kansas City Councilman from 1979 to 1991, as Mayor of Kansas City from 1991 to 1999, and in the US House of Representatives from 2005. He had a mostly liberal voting record.